when you are a midnight volcano

Look at this bird that came up on Aves do Brasil:



Doesn't he look like a volcano at night, with lava just waiting to overbrim?



I feel it's such a good representation of how we all are. All our hot feelings at the top of our heads.

In English he's called a ruby-crowned tanager. His Brazilian name, tiê preto, translates as "black tiê" (and the word "tiê" comes from a Tupi word, "ti'ye," but my very cursory investigations haven't turned up what that means). It's funny that the English name looks at ...
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Published on April 03, 2024 19:40
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CarolineFromConcord Birds are so beautiful. And unselfconscious, I think. Even when they preen, they don't preen as humans do.


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Francesca Forrest CarolineFromConcord wrote: "Birds are so beautiful. And unselfconscious, I think. Even when they preen, they don't preen as humans do."

You're making me wonder about how much awareness of their own beauty other creatures have... what does it take to consider oneself beautiful?


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